Cisco CISCOWORKS COMMON SERVICES 3.0 User Manual page 24

New Features
New Features
User Guide for CiscoWorks Common Services
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The major new features in this release:
• CiscoWorks Homepage
Provides launch points for CiscoWorks family of products and other
resources. The HTML based CiscoWorks Homepage replaces the Java applet
based Desktop.
Device and Credential Repository (DCR)
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Provides a central place for management of devices and their credentials that
the different applications managing those devices can use. Sharing of devices
and credentials help in common administration.
Device Center
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Provides a one-stop place where you can see a summary for a device, and
launch troubleshooting tools, management tasks, and reports for the selected
device.
Groups
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Provides a mechanism for applications to create shared device groups.
Provides grouping facility based on various attributes in Device and
Credential Repository (DCR).
Software Center
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Allows you to download and deploy device packages and software patches.
Enhanced security to support SNMPv3 authNoPriv
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Provides packet level security, integrity protection, and replay protection.
However, it does not encrypt the packets.
Enhanced restore framework.
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Enables Common Services and its applications to restore the data backed up
from an earlier version.
Security mechanisms for managing security in Single-Server and
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Multi-Server scenarios. Granular role based access.
New utilities for diagnosing problems with CiscoWorks Server, and
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managing log files.
New licensing framework.
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Chapter 1 Overview
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